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As for the playing orders, the CWA actually keeps a scoring spreadsheet on their official website http://www.qipai.org.cn/web/index/weiqi. You just need to know where to look. But of course it's all Chinese. I do not know if you upload the worksheet to Google docs you would be able to use Google translation on it.
Turns out the google translation doesn't work on XLS. But you can use excel to save the current sheet to HTM and then chrome will translate the file even if you open it from the local hardisk. I used this method to look at the results from League C. Noticed that the little girl (Wu Yiming) was the top scorer of her team with final 4-3 result.
You seem to follow the Hangzhou team closely. That's the team for your hometown, right?
That picture from the local competition was very impressive. Looks like converted a basketball arena to fir about 100 tables. So there were at least 200 little giants playing there. No wonder the Chinese are so strong at Go!
I look forward to seeing next year's results. I'm eager to see if Ilya will repeat his performance or whether this year was a fluke. I hope the Japanese will do better, too.
The Bailing Cup National Children's Weiqi Open is a big tournament. Last year there were 5 age groups with total of about 700 participants. In fact two group champions from last year's Bailing Cup were playing in this year's C-League. One of them is now 10 year old Zhang Xinyu 5D, he won the 8-9 age group. The other is Hangzhou Go Association's new pro Fang Ruoxi 1p, she won the 14-16 age group. This year there will be 6 age groups and they are expecting more participants.